Long days and evenings with Snowden in Moscow revealed a complex character who fit none of the stock images imposed on him by others. Gellman now brings his unique access and storytelling gifts to a true-life spy tale that touches us all. Snowden captured the public imagination but left millions of people unsure what to think. Who is the man, really? How did he beat the world's most advanced surveillance agency at its own game?
Is government and corporate spying as bad as he says? Dark Mirror is the master narrative we have waited for, told with authority and an inside view of extraordinary events. Within it is a personal account of the obstacles facing the author, beginning with Gellman's discovery of his own name in the NSA document trove.
Google notifies him that a foreign government is trying to compromise his account. A trusted technical adviser finds anomalies on his laptop.
Sophisticated impostors approach Gellman with counterfeit documents, attempting to divert or discredit his work. Throughout Dark Mirror, the author describes an escalating battle against unknown digital adversaries, forcing him to mimic their tradecraft in self-defense.
Written in the vivid scenes and insights that marked Gellman's bestselling Angler, Dark Mirror is an inside account of the surveillance-industrial revolution and its discontents, fighting back against state and corporate intrusions into our most private spheres.
Along the way it tells the story of a government leak unrivaled in drama since All the President's Men. A groundbreaking look at the NSA surveillance scandal, from the reporter who broke the story, Glenn Greenwald, star of Citizenfour, the Academy Award-winning documentary on Edward Snowden In May , Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels.
That source turned out to be the year-old NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency's widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security and information privacy.
As the arguments rage on and the government considers various proposals for reform, it is clear that we have yet to see the full impact of Snowden's disclosures. Now for the first time, Greenwald fits all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity ten-day trip to Hong Kong, examining the broader implications of the surveillance detailed in his reporting for The Guardian, and revealing fresh information on the NSA's unprecedented abuse of power with never-before-seen documents entrusted to him by Snowden himself.
Going beyond NSA specifics, Greenwald also takes on the establishment media, excoriating their habitual avoidance of adversarial reporting on the government and their failure to serve the interests of the people. Finally, he asks what it means both for individuals and for a nation's political health when a government pries so invasively into the private lives of its citizens—and considers what safeguards and forms of oversight are necessary to protect democracy in the digital age.
Coming at a landmark moment in American history, No Place to Hide is a fearless, incisive, and essential contribution to our understanding of the U. Thus the biggest national security leak of the digital era was launched via a remarkably analog network, the US Postal Service.
This is just one of the odd, ironic details that emerges from the story of how Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge, two experienced journalists but security novices and the friends who received and ferried the box got drawn into the Snowden story as behind-the-scenes players.
This is an illuminating story on the status of transparency, privacy, and trust in the age of surveillance. With an appendix suggesting what citizens and activists can do to protect privacy and democracy. A frightening, prophetic vision of our world He is on the run, after blowing the lid off the terrifying reach of covert American global surveillance operations.
Will the Russian authorities grant him asylum, or will they hand him over the clutches of the global octopus eager for revenge for his betrayal? As this gripping psychological and political thriller unfolds, a Moscow lawyer takes Kold to a secret bunker and grills him intently on just why he did it. Anatoly Kucherena is the famous Russian lawyer who took on the case of the American whistleblower Edward Snowden whose revelations about US intelligence operations sent shockwaves around the world in According to Stone, "Anatoly has written a 'grand inquisitor'-style Russian novel weighing the soul of his fictional whistleblower against the gravity of a tyranny that has achieved global proportions.
His meditations on the meaning of totalitarian power in the 21st century make for a chilling, prescient horror story. Was his theft legitimized by the nature of the information he exposed? When is it necessary for governmental transparency to give way to subterfuge?
Edward Jay Epstein [examines] these and other questions, delving into both how our secrets were taken and the man who took them"--Amazon. A team of journalists with unparalleled inside access provides the first full, in-depth account of WikiLeaks, its founder Julian Assange, and the ethical, legal, and political controversies it has both uncovered and provoked.
Edward Snowden's release of classified NSA documents exposed the widespread government practice of mass surveillance in a democratic society. Loved each and every part of this book. I will definitely recommend this book to non fiction, politics lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. What drove Snowden to sacrifice himself? Award-winning Guardian journalist Luke Harding asks the question which should trouble every citizen of the internet age. Home The Snowden Files.
Please download and share it everywhere. In case Snowden's embedded tweet above disappears at some point in the future, the PDF is hosted at a. Readers not fluent in Simplified Chinese will be disappointed to learn that they'll have to pay for the book — even though doing so will end up enriching the US government and the NSA rather than Snowden himself. Although he's banked his advance, royalties will go to Uncle Sam. Published last summer, Snowden's tell-all tome is billed as the story of how he became dissatisfied with the American spy agency lifestyle while working for the NSA in Hawaii as a contractor.
Sickened by the sheer volume of murky and indiscriminate eavesdropping he was helping sustain, Snowden told journalists what was really going on, leaked a bunch of documents proving what appeared to be wildly outlandish claims, and then fled America, eventually ending up in Russia.
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